I believe this 100%. I was just permabanned after 10 years on reddit without a single ‘violation.’ It started with a ban from /r/news for what I can only assume was replying to the wrong mod with something they didn’t like. Then a few days later a ban from /r/movies for mentioning piracy. I had a couple alts that I cycled through and made the egregious mistake of accidently leaving a comment in both subs as I was scrolling through my Frontpage on a different account. Boom – back to back 7 day bans and then a permaban for ‘ban evasion.’
During my time there I definitely noticed that recently things seem to be getting worse with bots and scammers and subs toeing more and more of the corporate line (like my ban from /r/movies for mentioning piracy) or pushing some agenda. I’ve seen numerous articles posted to /r/science recently with misleading editorialized headlines that don’t even match the study they’re linking to. When pointing this rule breaking violation out, my comments were deleted. Then with many other of the formerly default subs, we have tons of repost bots able to freely recycle content with more bots recycling popular comments from previous reposts every single day.
Seems like this would be a good way to make subs seem more active than they really are, users are more active then they really are, and subs more advertising/corporate friendly right before their IPO. Both Facebook and Twitter have been caught lying about the number of bots for this same reason in the recent past.
I’ve also been wondering if this blackout is all orchestrated by reddit using some of these major corporate controlled subs. As if reddit sets this ridiculous API cost, major subs claim they’ll go dark until things change, smaller subs follow suit, and then reddit comes back with a number 50% (or whatever) lower than previously stated. People will claim victory for getting reddit to change their mind but what they’ve really done is hoodwink everyone using what’s called Price Anchoring. This leads people to believe that the ‘50%’ price is a “great deal” without realizing that this was their real intent all along, but they served it to us in a way that made us feel like we won in the process.
I believe this 100%. I was just permabanned after 10 years on reddit without a single ‘violation.’ It started with a ban from /r/news for what I can only assume was replying to the wrong mod with something they didn’t like. Then a few days later a ban from /r/movies for mentioning piracy. I had a couple alts that I cycled through and made the egregious mistake of accidently leaving a comment in both subs as I was scrolling through my Frontpage on a different account. Boom – back to back 7 day bans and then a permaban for ‘ban evasion.’
During my time there I definitely noticed that recently things seem to be getting worse with bots and scammers and subs toeing more and more of the corporate line (like my ban from /r/movies for mentioning piracy) or pushing some agenda. I’ve seen numerous articles posted to /r/science recently with misleading editorialized headlines that don’t even match the study they’re linking to. When pointing this rule breaking violation out, my comments were deleted. Then with many other of the formerly default subs, we have tons of repost bots able to freely recycle content with more bots recycling popular comments from previous reposts every single day.
Seems like this would be a good way to make subs seem more active than they really are, users are more active then they really are, and subs more advertising/corporate friendly right before their IPO. Both Facebook and Twitter have been caught lying about the number of bots for this same reason in the recent past.
I’ve also been wondering if this blackout is all orchestrated by reddit using some of these major corporate controlled subs. As if reddit sets this ridiculous API cost, major subs claim they’ll go dark until things change, smaller subs follow suit, and then reddit comes back with a number 50% (or whatever) lower than previously stated. People will claim victory for getting reddit to change their mind but what they’ve really done is hoodwink everyone using what’s called Price Anchoring. This leads people to believe that the ‘50%’ price is a “great deal” without realizing that this was their real intent all along, but they served it to us in a way that made us feel like we won in the process.